© Andrej Grilc

News

© ORF/ Ursula Hummer-Berger

Dora Deliyska as a radio host at the leading cultural radio station in Austria – Ö1

10.07.2024 | 8:20 am

Read more about „Pasticcio” + -

Dora Deliyska is an internationally acclaimed pianist who has already released several fascinating concept albums. She creates concert programs and combines elements that do not necessarily appear to belong together. This creates a dramaturgy that allows the audience to experience completely new musical contexts. One can hear her artistic approach in the radio program “Pasticcio-Sommerfrische”.

© TEDx Klagenfurt

TED Talk on the thin line between piano performing art and science

08.06.2024

Klagenfurt

© Manuel Bacher

Poème Symphonique for 100 metronomes

09. – 11.02.2024

Dora Deliyska interprets Ligeti as part of a sound installation, together with the artist Patricia J. Reis

“Études & Préludes” twice at the Vienna Konzerthaus

19.10. & 20.10.2023

Dora Deliyska opens up new listening experiences

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“The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

13.02.2023

A conversation with Alain Steffen

New release at Hänssler Classic – “Études & Préludes”

03.02.2023

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Pre-Release Talk Concert at the Konzerthaus

19.01.2023

Dora Deliyska and Christoph Wellner, editor-in-chief of Radio Klassik Stephansdom and musicologist talk about the concept and the genesis of “Études & Préludes”

New videos
“Études & Préludes”

MORE NEWS + -

Dora Deliyska
and Emil Tabakov,
Ravel Concerto in G

04.05.2022

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Dora Deliyska
for Diva Magazine

© Alexander Bogdan Thompson

Dora Deliyska appointed
artist in Residence
for the Season 2021/2022
in State Opera Plovdiv

01.09.2021

Dora Deliyska
to record in
Teldex Studio, Berlin

09.08.2021
© Daniel Waldhecker | Kobalt Productions GmbH

Daniel Hope
and Dora Deliyska
at Europe@home
for ARTE TV

26.02.2021  |  7.00 pm
Live-Stream on ARTE TV
The pianist Dora Deliyska is a guest on “Europe@Home” on Arte TV and presents the musical diversity of her home country Bulgaria. She also plays pieces from her latest CD “Alles Walzer, einmal anders!” and thus shows her close connection to the Viennese sound tradition.
© Alexander Bogdan Thompson

“Metamorphosen”
for piano and Orchestra
to premiere in November

31.10.2021
Dora Deliyska’s develops conceptual programm, first time for piano and orchestra. Including monumental pieces, such as Liszt Totentanz and Rachmaninov, Paganini Variations the pianist reache new sound structures and unites the program with the “Dies Irae” theme

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Dora Deliyska

Artist’s biography

In recent years, Dora Deliyska has established herself not only as one of the leading, but also most versatile and interesting pianists of the present day. Her self-developed artistic projects have their own dramaturgy and cast a new and unique perspective on piano literature and the art of interpretation.

Through years of concert performances as well as audio and video recordings, Dora Deliyska has garnered international critical and audience acclaim. Her extensive repertoire ranges from Bach to Ligeti. She creates a connection between sensitive piano interpretation, precise virtuosity and well-founded musicological debate.

 


Dora Deliyska is a Bösendorfer Artist.

Programs

Alles Walzer, einmal anders!

With her most recent release, “Alles Walzer, einmal anders!”, Dora Deliyska enables her listeners to experience the Viennese waltz in an altogether different way. The pianist constructs complexities on the basic structure of this dance and shows the waltz in its myriad of facets: From Viennese-elegant to modern, virtuosic, orchestral; even impressionist. A Viennese newspaper named the CD as one of Austria’s Top 10 cultural events in 2020.

Études & Préludes

There are several important piano cycles that consist of 24 pieces. Composers have always liked drawing on this straightforward structure. So does Dora Deliyska – and combines and juxtaposes twelve Etudes and twelve Preludes by composers Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy, György Ligeti, and Nikolai Kapustin. The first part is made up of twelve hand-picked Etudes that are arranged by interval, going from a second all the way to the octave, intensifying emotionally with each step. The twelve Preludes of the second part mirror the first half and bring into balance the recital program which – greater than the sum of its 24 individual parts – could be seen as an artwork in and of itself.

B-A-C-H

The idea of the whole being more than the sum of its parts is made tangible by Dora Deliyska’s B-A-C-H Project. The Viennese-trained, Bulgarian-born pianist manages to combine excerpts from Bach’s WellTempered Clavier with corresponding selections from Shostakovich’s Preludes and Fugues op.87 and Chopin Etudes in such a way that the collection becomes an artwork itself.

Frank Siebert

Dates

21

October

Klosterneuburg | Solo and chamber music

PIECES BY
SCHUBERT, BARTÓK, ENESCU, DEBUSSY, LIGETI
CHRISTOPH EHRENFELLNER, VIOLIN
SALON EHRENFELLNER
AUGUSTINUS HALL, MONASTERY OF KLOSTERNEUBURG

05

February

Gothenburg | Piano recital, Études & Préludes

GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN

06

March

Vienna | Piano recital, Études & Préludes

MUSIC SALON, VIENNA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

06

April

Vienna | Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4

YOUNG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA VIENNA
CONDUCTOR MICHAEL LESSKY
EHRBAR HALL, VIENNA

29

May

Bulgaria | Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4

SHUMEN SYMPHONY, BULGARIA

23

October

Vienna | Camille Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 5

YOUNG PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA VIENNA
CONDUCTOR MICHAEL LESSKY
EHRBAR HALL, VIENNA

© Mischa Nawrata
© Mischa Nawrata
© Mischa Nawrata

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